GENE SILIENCING
Gene silencing is something that most people do not know about. It is part of molecular biology which is things to with the natural body and life but to a minute size. Gene silencing was developed and still developing by the RNAi team at CSIRO in Australia which was led by a British-Australian virologist and geneticist named Peter Waterhouse. This team of a few also had significant contributions from Ming-Bo Wang who helped Peter Waterhouse develop this technique. This technique is an innovation of Gene Shears and was discovered during the 1990s.
Gene Silencing is “the process of reducing or switching off the activity of a single gene”. A gene is like a coded instruction in your body which is passed down through families. These …show more content…
What Gene Silencing does is it intercepts the mRNA on its journey towards the protein or translation. This effectively decreases that type of protein being developed. This is done by a specifically modified molecule which is programmed to go and “specifically identify and break down the mRNA carrying instructions.” An easier way to explain this is imagining the gene is a laser pointer, the molecule as a Lego brick and the mRNA as the laser. Usually the laser pointer would collect the electric power to fire the laser to its destination. If you put the Lego brick in front of the laser pointer somewhere, the laser will not reach its final destination. This is the same idea with the mRNA and the …show more content…
Both his parents were primary school teachers, until when his older sister was born where his mum stopped working. He has 4 other siblings including a younger brother and 3 younger sisters. Ming-Bo went to primary and middle school during the last few years of ‘China’s cultural revolution’ and so luckily his senior years (1977-1980), china resumed their normal education and was able to receive the best education in the country including other 200,000 people. He was able to enter the ‘prestigious’ Beijing Peking University. He studied chemistry for 4 years and became a master in it. He is life experiences
Gene silencing is something that most people do not know about. It is part of molecular biology which is things to with the natural body and life but to a minute size. Gene silencing was developed and still developing by the RNAi team at CSIRO in Australia which was led by a British-Australian virologist and geneticist named Peter Waterhouse. This team of a few also had significant contributions from Ming-Bo Wang who helped Peter Waterhouse develop this technique. This technique is an innovation of Gene Shears and was discovered during the 1990s.
Gene Silencing is “the process of reducing or switching off the activity of a single gene”. A gene is like a coded instruction in your body which is passed down through families. These …show more content…
What Gene Silencing does is it intercepts the mRNA on its journey towards the protein or translation. This effectively decreases that type of protein being developed. This is done by a specifically modified molecule which is programmed to go and “specifically identify and break down the mRNA carrying instructions.” An easier way to explain this is imagining the gene is a laser pointer, the molecule as a Lego brick and the mRNA as the laser. Usually the laser pointer would collect the electric power to fire the laser to its destination. If you put the Lego brick in front of the laser pointer somewhere, the laser will not reach its final destination. This is the same idea with the mRNA and the …show more content…
Both his parents were primary school teachers, until when his older sister was born where his mum stopped working. He has 4 other siblings including a younger brother and 3 younger sisters. Ming-Bo went to primary and middle school during the last few years of ‘China’s cultural revolution’ and so luckily his senior years (1977-1980), china resumed their normal education and was able to receive the best education in the country including other 200,000 people. He was able to enter the ‘prestigious’ Beijing Peking University. He studied chemistry for 4 years and became a master in it. He is life experiences